Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Living in California means an earthquake could happen at any moment, such as the magnitude 7.3 Landers earthquake that struck east ...

Whether you felt tremors last week or not, many North Carolinians may wonder whether it is necessary to get earthquake insurance on their homes. Several shallow earthquakes were recorded near ...

On January 1, 2008, at 1:59 am in Calipatria, California, an earthquake happened. You haven’t heard of this earthquake; even if you had been living in Calipatria, you wouldn’t have felt anything. It ...

Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “weak,” though the earthquake may ...